Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma physical examination

Patients with mucinous cystadenocarcinoma usually appear normal. Physical examination of patients with mucinous cystadenocarcinoma is usually remarkable for abdominal distention, shifting dullness, a palpable abdominal mass, and coarse crackles upon auscultation of the lung bases.

• Patients with mucinous cystadenocarcinoma usually appear normal. ^[1]

• Lungs are hyporesonant
• Coarse crackles upon auscultation of the lung bases
• Rhonchi

• Abdominal distention
• Abdominal tenderness in the right/left lower abdominal quadrant
• A palpable abdominal mass in the right/left lower abdominal quadrant
• Shifting dullness

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